Perspectives on retail technology – October 2016

A year after Google and Apple first opened the doors of their app stores, they stocked 65,000 apps; less than a decade later, there are over 1.5 million apps to choose from. This explosive growth reflects a shift from software houses to citizen developers, and from large multi-functional programs to apps that do one thing supremely well. These days, whatever the problem, “there’s an app for that”.